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Schools today need teachers who are ICT savvy, hence as upcoming Learning Managers we need to learn how to integrate ICTs into our learning design.
Digital pedagogies give different ways of communication to further advantage students while engaging them in the learning process. Web based journals such as Blogs, can be used to share experiences with others, like the blogs we are all currently creating. There is no limit to blogs, only that of your imagination. Blogs are a great way to encourage students to record their 'own learning journey' and to share with others their achievements. You can also monitor other people's blogs through a RSS (Really Simple Syndication) aggregator. Which allows you to see when someone has posted a new blog or updated an older one.
WIKIs are another form of digital interaction or collaboration, and provide opportunities for people to publish their ideas individually or collaboratively.
By getting students to build their own Blog or WIKI they would be actively engaging in the learning process while being able to reflect and post their own thoughts and ideas. As well as read that of other students and their understanding of the learning process. This would accommodate for the different types of learners, for example; linguistic learners would be able to write their understandings where as visual learners may find powerpoints to watch or diagrams to demonstrate what is being said.
As a kinaesthetic learner I have found it very helpful to create my own blog and be able to read the thoughts of others and how they have interpreted the information.
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Hi Amy, your first sentence says it all to me. Our students need teachers who are ready and able to teach them about the world, yes but they need to be prepared for the world by learning about technology and its applications early so that they are as employable as possible as they leave the schooling environment.
ReplyDeleteI also like to read other peoples interpretations of work especially theorists because then I can sit back and compare how I had interpreted a piece of work to how everyone else had interpreted it.